Chapter 13
Hannah Pov:
This can't be right, Halfdan is a giant, beautiful, slime! I run forward and jump on the slime surprising everyone. "Aren't you just the cutest!," I say as I snuggle with it.
"Are you serious, you don't even know if it's friendly!," The knight commander yells, so I give him a grouchy this is mine face.
"It's ok, my sister does the same thing, and this is my brothers slime. He has two more pets but they are defending the house," The man says and he looks back to Halfdan. "Make sure you don't dissolve her clothes. Also can you have some of your clones to check for monsters, then lead us back?," The man asks Halfdan making me realize he could've melted my clothes off when I jumped on him.
"Ahh?!," I yell falling off.
"You idiot, don't go rushing in like that!," My brother Henry scolds me. Why does he always have to get on my case. An at that moment the slime Halfdan starts shaking. Then it splits up into what looks like a hundred slimes. Next thing I know most of them head off in all directions and one stays with us.
"Follow me and you shouldn't run into any monsters," The man says as he sets off with the slime on his shoulders. Who is this man and why is he helping us when he stands no chance.
"So, why are you helping us?," I ask walking beside him. He doesn't seem to hear as he just keeps on walking. I am about to go up and ask again as he throws a knife at a tree. Next thing I know a Giant snake falls out.
"AAAAHHHHHH!!!!!," Everyone yells at the sudden giant snake.
"Don't bother about them, they are common in this forest and tend to go for my home. I don't really know why, but that is the most common species in this forest. The other species are Goblins, Orcs, Golems, and Yeti are the common ones," He finishes as he grabs the snake and makes it disappear into thin air?!
"Captain, most of the monsters he just mentioned are low, but that last one was B class. I know that Beast-kin are stronger and better at survival, but I can't think of any that could survive here," One of the soldiers behind me says to the commander.
I tap the mans shoulder to get his attention and ask. "Why are you helping us?," I notice at that point most of the soldiers including my brother and Theo are listening.
"I am helping you because I have a friend who asked me to. He said that a monster might show up and wipe you out. That was what most likely caused that avalanche. I still don't know what the type is and I am at a disadvantage due to my brother being incapacitated," The man says to everyone's surprise, who told this man we would be there? What monster tried to wipe us out? And why is his brother incapacitated?
"Why is your brother incapacitated?," I ask him to which he shivers as he stops walking. From the looks of things he doesn't want to talk about it for some odd reason. "It's o—," I don't get to say what I want to as he interrupts me.
"We got the wrong information on the tenth floor of a dungeon. It was supposed to be a Silver coat bear, but instead, it turned out to be a basilisk as I said. He accidentally grazed its fangs when he was battling it, he managed to kill it, but he got poisoned. It died meaning we could no longer get the antivenom, so for the past couple of months, he has been in a coma!," He says while crying his heart out. It seems he really cares for his brother, but to kill a Basilisk!
Basilisk's are S class monsters that require at least an adventurer of the same rank. Judging from that I can assume, he just looks younger than he is. There has been no-one who is Twenty five or lower that is an S class. So there is no way that a child can do th—.
I can't continue thinking and even the people murmuring behind me stop at a roar. "What was that?," Multiple people including myself ask.
"That was a Onikuma, they aren't supposed to be this far south, only Gamerton should be getting them," The man says, saying a legendary beasts name. Onikuma is a giant bear only found in warmer climates, it has spikes protruding from its body and is considered A-class. Our group can deal with them because this team has enough members it can take on a AAA-class beast, but still.
"That beast was weak, I thought everything in this glacier was supposed to be strong," A voice boomed out from ahead. "I guess I'll just go for this Great wolf then," The voice continued to which the man stiffened and we heard fighting ahead.
"Something found it!," The man says looking scared as he starts to run ahead. "Halfdan, why didn't we know about this?," He asks the slime to which it seems to be thinking. That should not be possible, slimes are dumb and one of the weakest creatures.
"I am pretty sure it killed my copies. Judging from that and what we heard we can assume it is at least A-class. It is either a Lower Celestial, a lower Demon, or maybe a Demon," The slime speaks scaring us all.
We emerge to see a giant, pitch black figure tossing away a giant wolf. I guess that was the great wolf. "No," The man whispers crying, it seems he knew that beast well. "Whatever happens, get into that cave!," He tells us removing his tears.
"Why, why should we trust you?," The captain asks clearly angry that everyone followed him without hesitation.
"Because, that is your only chance of survival. Once you get in my younger sister Emma will lead you to a safe place. There is a magical barrier to protect my family in case of attacks from S-class monsters. Now go!," The man finishes as he runs off leading the charge to the cave. But as we go my brother, Henry, falls!